Robbery outside Krispy Kreme, student apartments leads to arrest

By Sarah Tressler :
July 11, 2013
: Updated: July 11, 2013 6:35pm

Officials say Edward Garcia, 26, was picked out of a photo lineup by a victim who was threatened outside Krispy Kreme on Tuesday night, July 9, 2013.

Photo By Courtesy Photos / Bexar County Sheriff's Office

Officials say Guadalupe Garcia, 20, admitted to driving the getaway vehicle during the course of the robberies outside Krispy Kreme on Tuesday night, July 9, 2013.

Two men suspected of robbing several people at knifepoint outside a Krispy Kreme and at a housing complex near UTSA are behind bars Thursday after one of the victims picked one man out in a photo lineup and the other confessed to driving the getaway vehicle, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Four people who exited the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop Tuesday night in the 12000 block of Interstate 10 West were approached by a Hispanic man wearing a “SPURS” shirt or hat and brandishing a knife. He demanded each of their wallets.

Each of the victims refused in turn, and the man jumped in a white Chrysler 300, where a driver was waiting, and took off. The victims took note of the car's license plate number and reported the incident to police.

Less than an hour later, officers were called out to a robbery about four miles away at the High View Place Apartments in the 15000 block of Chase Hill Boulevard, a student housing complex about mile from the UTSA campus. An officer spotted the white Chrysler 300 parked at the complex and arrested the driver, Guadalupe Garcia, 20, who later admitted to driving the getaway vehicle during the course of robbery outside Krispy Kreme.

The other man, Edward Garcia, 26, was picked out of a photo lineup by one of the victims who was threatened outside of the doughnut shop. He has a previous DWI charge.

Both men are being held in Bexar County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail each.